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Hippo 🍉In the same theme is <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Geoloquent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Geoloquent</a>, an attempt to rewrite the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FreeDesktop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreeDesktop</a> geolocation API in a type-safe language :rust_ferris:<a href="https://nlnet.nl/project/Geoloquent/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://nlnet.nl/project/Geoloquent/</a>While I use <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/KaiOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KaiOS</a> on my main phone, I also carry a <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Mobian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mobian</a> device, so I'm happy for anything that'll help improve location services on there!(Side note: the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Furiphone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Furiphone</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/@furilabs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@furilabs</a> has done a good job of making a "mainline" Linux phone that works, though with the compromise of having a bit of <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Android</a> some layers down)🧵 6/n

R1 Open Source ProjectNetworkManager 1.54 released with support for per-device IPv4 forwarding, updated nm-cloud-setup for OCI baremetal setups, loopback configuration support in nmtui, and NVMe Boot Firmware Table support in the builtin initrd-generator<a href="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/blob/1.54.0/NEWS" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/blob/1.54.0/NEWS</a><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/networkmanager" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#networkmanager</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/linuxnetworking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linuxnetworking</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linux</a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/freedesktop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#freedesktop</a>

Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)In case some of you <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeDesktop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreeDesktop</a> + <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Flatpak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Flatpak</a> security/permissions sandboxing enthusiasts have particular areas of interests within the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GNOME" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GNOME</a> portals, I have now created GitLab issue triaging labels for what seem to be the most prominent ones, that you can use or subscribe to for selective notifications :blobcatcoffee: <a href="https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome/-/labels?search=portal" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome/-/labels?search=portal</a>

SlatianThe <a href="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">xdg-utils</a> now have a Gitlab CI scaffold to test for regressions automatically. :drgn_sparkle: For that to fully work though the scripts need to fully pass shellcheck in the first place, help here is appreciated! :drgn_pleading: <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.envs.net/tag/linux" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linux</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.envs.net/tag/shellcheck" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#shellcheck</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.envs.net/tag/xdg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#xdg</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.envs.net/tag/freedesktop" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#freedesktop</a>

izzyhot take, I feel xorg is here to stay despite its supposed technical flaws. i don't buy the propoganda that FDO is trying to "kill" it. they still maintain it, albeit with no new features, plenty of projects such as xenocara work with them and upstream fixes as need be. also, x11 is pretty dang featureful as it is tbh. besides, that enrico weigelt guy is certainly not "saving" anything considering his development track record.<a href="https://ieji.de/tags/xlibre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#xlibre</a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/xorg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#xorg</a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linux</a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/openbsd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#openbsd</a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/xenocara" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#xenocara</a> <a href="https://ieji.de/tags/freedesktop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#freedesktop</a>

Ozzie D, NP-hard :bikepump: :vegan:<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/PetPeeve" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PetPeeve</a>: I hate that "Music" is one of the standard home folders on desktop computers. I love music, but I want it to be "Audio" -- not all audio is music (plus "audio" pairs better with "video"). When was this default established, in <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/MacOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MacOS</a> X 10.0, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/WinNT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WinNT</a>, earlier? (I think NextStep or BeOS might have had a "Sounds" folder.) Now, seemingly every <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/desktop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#desktop</a> uses this default: <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Windows</a>, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Mac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mac</a>, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/FreeDesktop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreeDesktop</a> environments (<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/GNOME" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GNOME</a>, <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/KDE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KDE</a>), are there any exceptions? Like the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/DesktopMetaphor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DesktopMetaphor</a> itself, we're stuck with it, even though it chafes.<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/GUI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GUI</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/UserInterface" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UserInterface</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Legacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Legacy</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/OldManYellsAtCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OldManYellsAtCloud</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/UnreasonableExpectations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#UnreasonableExpectations</a>

Kevin Karhan :verified:Yeah, <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/FreeDesktop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreeDesktop</a> having to setup <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Anubis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Anubis</a> & close registrations really shows how toxic certain folks are... <a href="https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114742632970945770" translate="no" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114742632970945770</a>

SlatianHey xdg-shell-linux fedi corner :drgn: I need some eyes on this code here: <a href="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/-/merge_requests/147" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/-/merge_requests/147</a><a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.envs.net/tag/linux" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linux</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.envs.net/tag/awk" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#awk</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.envs.net/tag/freedesktop" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#freedesktop</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.envs.net/tag/xdg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#xdg</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.envs.net/tag/xdgutils" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#xdgutils</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://pleroma.envs.net/tag/shell" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#shell</a>

Eduardo Medina 🇪🇸¿Dónde está alojado <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Wayland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Wayland</a>? Pues en la instancia propia de <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GitLab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GitLab</a> de <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freedesktop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#freedesktop</a>. Esto es infinitamente más coherente con los principios del <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SoftwareLibre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SoftwareLibre</a>, le pese a quien le pese.Inestimados haters de <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RedHat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RedHat</a>, haciendo las cosas como las hacéis no vais a ninguna parte.

FellTo all my fellow Arch users, I was once again reminded that putting anything in `/etc/environment` is a bad idea. Don't do it.I put `GTK_USE_PORTAL=1` in there, because I always want native file dialogs, right? Well, turns out this breaks secret service integration (KDE Wallet/GNOME Keyring) in Fractal. So, back to setting it on a per-app basis.<a href="https://ma.fellr.net/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linux</a> <a href="https://ma.fellr.net/tags/ArchLinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ArchLinux</a> <a href="https://ma.fellr.net/tags/GTK" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GTK</a> <a href="https://ma.fellr.net/tags/FreeDesktop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreeDesktop</a> <a href="https://ma.fellr.net/tags/KDE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KDE</a> <a href="https://ma.fellr.net/tags/GNOME" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GNOME</a> <a href="https://ma.fellr.net/tags/Fractal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Fractal</a>

Sune Stolborg VuorelaAfter mostly lurking in <a href="https://floss.social/tags/gitlab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gitlab</a> administration channels of <a href="https://floss.social/tags/kde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#kde</a>, <a href="https://floss.social/tags/debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#debian</a> and <a href="https://floss.social/tags/freedesktop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#freedesktop</a> I really want to bring them all into a room filled with snacks 1) to thank them for their work and 2) to hope that they would start chatting a bit with each other.And let's also invite the gitlab administrators from <a href="https://floss.social/tags/gnome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#gnome</a> and maybe others.

BørgeWhat Linux applications has implemented the FreeDesktop/XDG background portal feature?Any torrent clients? Any apps at all actually fully supports it yet?<a href="https://tutoteket.no/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linux</a> <a href="https://tutoteket.no/tags/FreeDesktop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreeDesktop</a> <a href="https://tutoteket.no/tags/XDG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#XDG</a> <a href="https://tutoteket.no/tags/XDGportal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#XDGportal</a> <a href="https://tutoteket.no/tags/BackgroundPortal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BackgroundPortal</a>

Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)As courtesy, after I was recently made to comment on qBittorrent's ticket about supporting the XDG background application status APIs (i.e. the replacement for traditional system tray icons, and more), I have now provided that kind of information to the Transmission project as well: <a href="https://github.com/transmission/transmission/issues/5484#issuecomment-2709060231" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://github.com/transmission/transmission/issues/5484#issuecomment-2709060231</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeDesktop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreeDesktop</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Wayland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Wayland</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Flatpak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Flatpak</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linux</a>

GNU/Linux.chEphraims Wochenrückblick: KW 10, 2025In KW 10 gibt es von Firefox über Thunderbird bis zu FreeDesktop.org einiges zu berichten. <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Wochenr%C3%BCckblick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Wochenrückblick</a> <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Firefox</a> <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Thunderbird" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Thunderbird</a> <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Freedesktop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Freedesktop</a> <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linux</a><a href="https://gnulinux.ch/ephraims-wochenrueckblick-kw-10-2025" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://gnulinux.ch/ephraims-wochenrueckblick-kw-10-2025</a>

Thor A. Hopland<a href="https://tutoteket.no/@forteller" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@forteller</a> <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/AppImage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AppImage</a> support is still done on a per-distro basis, and it really isn't much more than setting permission and executing certain environment variables... I think. But mayhaps this is a job for ... <a href="https://snabelen.no/tags/FREEDESKTOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FREEDESKTOP</a>Hello. I'm free desktop... gief money, We craves it, WE NEEDS IT!!But yeah, maybe xdg-open should handle that problem. Then distros wouldn't need to do anything to get first rate AppImage support by removing those annoyances.One can only hope.

Varbin :arctic_fox: :gay_furr:So... I wanted to package my Python app using tkinter UI library (it is just good enough for my purpose) as a flatpak. Flatpaks are based on "runtimes" similar to docker base images.As I did obviously not use any "big" UI framework (Gnome or KDE) and it already provides Python with tkinter, I decided to use the org.freedesktop.Platform as a runtime for my flatpak. The first challenge was to get the dbus-python package to compile, as it requires a dbus binary for compiling it. So I added the freedesktop DBus implementation. I need dbus functionallity, as it allows me to use the "XDG Desktop Portals" to interactively open files when running in the flatpak sandbox. After this, everything worked! :neocat_happy:Unfortunately, the application cannot load any proper font, so it falls back to the 90s era fonts compiled statically into Tcl/Tk (which tkinter is based on). After some trial and error, and finding out how add custom fonts to Tk, I disovered that the freedesktop runtime does not ship freedesktop fontconfig. And also I can't add it that easily to the build step, too, as the bundled Tk installation does not link to it anyway… :neocat_angry:<a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/flatpak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#flatpak</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/freedesktop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#freedesktop</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/tkinter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#tkinter</a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#python</a>

Xe :verified:<a href="https://chaos.social/@karolherbst" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@karolherbst</a> I just joined <a href="https://pony.social/tags/freedesktop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#freedesktop</a> on OFTC!

✍️ Eljo #MorpurgoMedia<a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/Freedesktop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Freedesktop</a> en <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/Alpine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Alpine</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nl/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linux</a> op zoek naar nieuwe webhosting<a href="https://www.techzine.nl/nieuws/infrastructure/560605/freedesktop-en-alpine-linux-op-zoek-naar-nieuwe-webhosting/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.techzine.nl/nieuws/infrastructure/560605/freedesktop-en-alpine-linux-op-zoek-naar-nieuwe-webhosting/</a>

Sugar LabsHappy Free Software Day! Please enjoy your software freedom today!2/2<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreeSoftware</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeSoftwareDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreeSoftwareDay</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OpenSource</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linux</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GNU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GNU</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeDesktop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FreeDesktop</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GNOME" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GNOME</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sugarizer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sugarizer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MusicBlocks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MusicBlocks</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TurtleBlocks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TurtleBlocks</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/STEM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#STEM</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Education</a>

razze<a href="https://osna.social/tags/wayland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wayland</a> has merged the color management protocol (<a href="https://osna.social/tags/hdr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hdr</a>) Congrats to everyone involved!<a href="https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/14#note_2778607" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland-protocols/-/merge_requests/14#note_2778607</a><a href="https://osna.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#linux</a> <a href="https://osna.social/tags/freedesktop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#freedesktop</a>

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